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question about nvda add ons
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molly the blind tech lover
Hey guys, Molly here again. I was just wondering, is an NVDA add on the equivalent of jaws scripts? I realize that add ons enhance the functionality of NVDA. Isn’t that similar to Jaws scripting? Or am I way off base here? Thanks. |
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Jackie
Not really, Molly. Though there are some similarities, Jaws scripting
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is pretty much basically confined to an existing application, while NVDA addons can creat entirely new 1's, for example, the remote addon. On 12/13/18, molly the blind tech lover <brainardmolly@...> wrote:
Hey guys, Molly here again. --
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Molly,
I'll have to disagree with Jackie, at least in part. While exactly what can be done in NVDA add-ons as far as scope is different than JAWS scripts, the basic concept is precisely the same. There exist lots of unofficial NVDA extensions developed by individuals that are related to making specific applications accessible. Even a good number of the official add-ons at https://addons.nvda-project.org/index.en.html are directly related to a single application. Some of the scope differences have come about secondary to design philosophy for NVDA that was relatively "set in stone" from the outset and where there are core functions, which are part of NVDA itself, and non-core functions, which are handled by add-ons. NVDA Remote could easily have been part of NVDA core functionality (as could a number of other add-ons) but what those add-ons do was not classed as a core function of the screen reader, so those functions are handled by add-ons. There has been discussion of potentially making certain functions currently served by add-ons core functionality of NVDA, but I cannot for the life of me remember which ones right now. Those discussions come and go on this group and probably occur a lot more frequently and intensely on NVDA's github, the actual developers hang-out (for lack of a better term). -- Brian - Windows 10 Home, 64-Bit, Version 1809, Build 17763 A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. ~ Saul Bellow, To Jerusalem and Back
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Arlene
Yes Molly, NVDA addons are like Jaws scripts. You add them as you see fit.
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On 12/13/18, molly the blind tech lover <brainardmolly@...> wrote:
Hey guys, Molly here again. |
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molly the blind tech lover
interesting. good to know. On Thu, Dec 13, 2018, 2:27 PM Brian Vogel <britechguy@... wrote: Molly, |
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molly the blind tech lover
Hey guys? I keep trying to reply to your responses to my question, but my Internet keeps going out. Darn Comcast. I'm sending this before the Internet goes out... again.
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-----Original Message-----
From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of Arlene Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2018 2:33 PM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] question about nvda add ons Yes Molly, NVDA addons are like Jaws scripts. You add them as you see fit. On 12/13/18, molly the blind tech lover <brainardmolly@...> wrote: Hey guys, Molly here again. |
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Jackie
Brian v. I could've been clearer in my explanation, perhaps. Jaws
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scripts, for the most part, are triggered by keystrokes in an application that are tied to the jaws script. So, for example, using Notepad, I could (& have) written a Jaws script such that the keystroke alt down arrow read the contents of the column where the cursor was. But the scripts are tied to a specific application, in this case Notepad. While NVDA's addon facilities can be used similarly, they can also be used very differently, ie, creating applications that didn't exist. The remote NVDA addon as well as some of Joseph Lee's apps like the addon updater & his Win 10 essentials are examples of this latter, broader, more powerful concept. The basic reason is simply that the Jaws scripting language doesn't have the facilities of Python. So yes--the 2 are similar in that they are both intended to create increased accessibility, but they differ considerably in the power of the tools used & therefore what can be accomplished w/them. On 12/13/18, molly the blind tech lover <brainardmolly@...> wrote:
Hey guys? I keep trying to reply to your responses to my question, but my --
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hurrikennyandopo ...
Hi
the following link may help you on questions that jaws users may ask when they take nvda for a test drive etc. the following link should help you you can jump down to the area about scripts or known as add ons with nvda but the rest of it you should find interesting.
The link to this page is https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda-community/wiki/SwitchingFromJawsToNVDA hopefully it helps you.
gene nz
On 14/12/2018 9:15 AM, molly the blind tech lover wrote:
Hey guys? I keep trying to reply to your responses to my question, but my Internet keeps going out. Darn Comcast. I'm sending this before the Internet goes out... again. -----Original Message----- From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of Arlene Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2018 2:33 PM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] question about nvda add ons Yes Molly, NVDA addons are like Jaws scripts. You add them as you see fit. On 12/13/18, molly the blind tech lover <brainardmolly@...> wrote:Hey guys, Molly here again. I was just wondering, is an NVDA add on the equivalent of jaws scripts? I realize that add ons enhance the functionality of NVDA. Isn't that similar to Jaws scripting? Or am I way off base here? Thanks. --
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To find out which locations (or location) is near to you please visit
http://www.aotearoapeoplesnetwork.org/content/partner-libraries (Aotearoa People's Network Kaharoa). To find an NVDA certified expert near you, please visit the following link
https://certification.nvaccess.org/. The certification page contains the official list of NVDA certified individuals from around the world, who have sat and successfully passed the NVDA
expert exam.
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hi gene.
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thanks so much for your link. it helped me a lot for better understanding nvda and its difference and similarities with jaws. thanks extremely for your help, God bless you! On 12/14/18, hurrikennyandopo ... <hurrikennyandopo@...> wrote:
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Brian's Mail list account
App modules can be seen as scripts foor that program, but add ons are more than that, though they may indeed change behaviour in just one application.
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From: "molly the blind tech lover" <brainardmolly@...> To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2018 6:45 PM Subject: [nvda] question about nvda add ons Hey guys, Molly here again. |
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True, I think of addons in their simplest form if only containing modules and plugins as being packaged archives, but I guess in their more advanced state since they can contain everything from scripts to fully portable apps, synths and drivers etc, as extentions for nvda that can do a lot of things, in the past since they can take programs bad things but mostly good if secured right.
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Since nvda is just a reader and such extentions like in google chrome would be apt. But if nvda was its own os, then nvda addons would be what the apple bundles are to macs or those packaged executable installers you get in windows are. So installers for apps. Apps can be scripts for apps, drivers, synths, apps in their own right etc. Not saying that it would happen but to be honest, there is not much idea wize from making nvda to its own os. maybe a linux distro, technically there is more to that than meets the eye. On 12/14/2018 10:57 PM, Brian's Mail list account via Groups.Io wrote:
App modules can be seen as scripts foor that program, but add ons are more than that, though they may indeed change behaviour in just one application. |
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